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Series in which Jonathan Meades considers unusual homes or architecture around Britain.

Patrick Macnee's Ghost Stories, also known as Ghost Stories, Ghost Stories: A Paranormal Insight, and Real Ghost Stories, was a series of six sepecials that were originally released on October 10, 1997. The specials were hosted by Patrick Macnee The six specials were released separately and together on VHS and in several boxed sets on DVD. The specials investigate various hauntings and is similar to the format of Unsolved Mysteries. The series include such explorations as the legends of The Black Hope Horror, The Tower of London, Harriet’s Ghost and many more.

"Meng Lijun" (孟丽君) is a 1995 Huangmei Opera musical television series starring Han Zaifen (韩再芬) and directed by Hu Liancui (胡连翠). It is adapted from the ballad "Rebirth"(再生缘) by Chen Duansheng (陈端生) of the Qing Dynasty. The play tells the story of Meng Lijun (孟丽君), who disguises herself as a man to become the top scholar in the imperial examination in order to avenge her family, and is eventually pardoned by the court. The play won the Best Opera Film Award at the 13th Golden Eagle Awards. After its broadcast, it promoted the popularization of Huangmei Opera, and the number of Han Zaifen's (韩再芬) fans increased dramatically across the country.

This three-part television courtroom drama series is based on one of the most controversial trials in Israel’s history. In 1944 Dr Yisrael Kastner, a member of the committee for the rescue of Hungarian Jewry, succeeded in saving the lives of 1,685 Jews by gaining permission for them to leave Budapest. A decade later he was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and was assassinated. Focusing on the courtroom procedures of 1954–5, as well as on the private lives of the protagonists, and drawing on court proceedings and interviews, the drama deconstructs the narrative of the Holocaust, bringing out issues such as the ineffective policy of the Zionist leadership regarding the Holocaust and the morally ambivalent stance of the survivors.

An exploration of how science, technology, and new thoughts challenging our social systems are changing the world before our eyes.

Asagi suddenly develops supernatural powers on her 17th birthday, and meets Lena and Itsumi who are looking for friends.

Die Bambus-Bären-Bande is a German 52 part animated television series, broadcast from 25 March 1996 to 30 November 1996.

The stingy man "Fathi" marries "Su'aad" after the death of his first wife, he rents rooms of his house and has permanent differences between his family members and him due to his stinginess within a comedy mold. The story revolves around a lost bag that roams between several characters in a humorous way, and affects the lives of each of them in a surprising way. The plot depends on the consequences of losing and recovering the case, which creates a range of comedic situations and paradoxical situations that put the characters in sometimes embarrassing situations, and sometimes in funny situations.

The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nicknamed Red-haired Xuan for his sunburnt hair) is working as a ball boy. Their encounter that day would change Xuan’s life forever, as the widow introduced him to an entirely different world of the hypocritical and decadent petite bourgeoisie class, a condition of “Westernized” middle-class Hanoians under French colonial rule in the 1920s. An 8-part series adapted from Vu Trong Phung’s classic satire.

The Super Structures documentary specials celebrate the world's most spectacular engineering challenges and monumental construction projects. The series features the Eurotunnel, the International Space Station, the Panama Canal and many more fascinating structures around the world.

A six-hour documentary series chronicling the way the West was lost and won between 1845 and 1893, broadcast nationally on PBS in May 1995 as part of WGBH’s American Experience. The film looks at the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.

The ‘Terminal Station Series’ is a police drama series produced by TV Asahi and Toei, which aired intermittently on the TV Asahi network from 8 December 1990 to 22 December 2022. The protagonist, Detective Ushio, was portrayed by Shigeru Tsuyuguchi in the first four instalments and by Tsurutaro Kataoka from the fifth instalment onwards. Kazuo Ikehiro served as director for the entire series from the first instalment onwards. The series is based on the mystery novel series *Detective Ushio’s Case Files* by Seiichi Morimura.

"The Pride of the Third World" is the title of a series of 16 comedy programs broadcast on La 2 of Spanish Television between 1993 and 1994, starring the comedy duo Faemino and Cansado. The programs were recorded almost without cuts in the Galileo Galilei theater in Madrid, with a live audience, and each episode ran for less than thirty minutes. "The Pride of the Third World" largely cemented the duo's place in the hearts of Spanish audiences, despite it not being their first television appearance and none of their programs achieving high ratings.

This documentary first aired on British TV in May 1994 during the height of the Ogoni conflict in which a small Nigerian minority, the Ogoni, rose up against the oppression and exploitation perpetrated by Shell in their collaboration with the Nigerian military government and powerful Western economic interests. The peaceful Ogoni protests were violently ended by the military government in 1995 with the unlawful hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer, journalist and activist for the Ogoni people. Saro-Wiwa succeeded in reaching out to the international community to put pressure on those holding the Ogoni hostage. In the end, he may not have achieved all the goals set out by the Ogoni, but he drew attention to social grievances which were falsely believed to be exclusive to the colonial era.

Dok Kaew, a woman from the forest, goes to town to uncover the truth behind her father’s mysterious death and becomes a servant in her father’s household, unaware that the owner is her half-brother.

Caveman Hairy Jeremy has adventures in this prehistoric and somewhat absurdist French stop-motion animation.

The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999. The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of London's Clermont Club in the 1960s.

The series deals with separate episodes of many important stories. Among these stories are (Sabra Al Yasser), (Faraj after hardship), the story of the arguing woman, the story of the land of Abdan Al-Hadrami, and other important stories.

The Rap of China is a Chinese rap reality show produced by IQiyi. The show is based on a South Korean rap reality show called Show Me The Money. The show has four celebrity producers whose job is to train and guide the rappers participating in the competition. The producers are Chinese-Canadian singer-songwriter Kris Wu, Taiwanese-American singer Wilber Pan, Taiwanese rapper MC HotDog and aboriginal Taiwanese rock musician Chang Chen Yue.

Aimed at the 4 to 8-year-old age group, the series is a friendly invitation to discover the world of children's dreams. Each episode features a child, ranging from 6 to 12 years old describing and illustrating his / her dream, a bit in the manner of a small tale. Respecting the children's genuine drawing style as well as the spirit of their dream, each episode features an original music score. The children's narration preserves natural emotions, colourful imaginations and the authenticity of the series' style.

The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse is a 26 half-hour television animated series loosely inspired by the real life Elliot Ness, and his group of agents colloquially known as The Untouchables, and their investigation into the real life gangster Al Capone, although it does take some liberties with history. The series also parodies the violent atmosphere of Chicago during the Dry Law, as well as the old American films, their heroes and villains.

DIY show featuring Tommy Walsh.

Two little bumblebees, Bzuk and Ťuk, are worried about the weather again. It bothers them that it's raining on their meadow. And so they set out into the world again to find who is to blame. The wise bee Alka reveals many secrets of nature to the little pilgrims, and with her help the bumblebees finally understand that without the rain, everything in their beautiful meadow would have dried up and withered.

Epic Church History—Watch as the Kirtland temple is dedicated and struggle with the Willie Martin Handcart Company who suffered in Martin’s Cove. Through reenactments, live interviews, and on-site cinematography the award-winning epic series of the Docudrama of the Restoration deepens testimonies through the astonishing history of the Church while visiting historical sites.

Ryota a medical college student, meets a girl, Air, who has an invisible body. She has lost her memory and is being chased by a mysterious organization. Ryota decides to protect Air from the hands of the organization.

An overprotective father is a roadblock in his daughter's life.